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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoJonathan Quilter | DispatchPinch-runner Matt Lawson dives into home plate to score the winning run in the 10th inning as RailRiders catcher Jeff Farnham waits for the throw.

The 10th inning broke perfectly for the Clippers last night in Huntington Park, which tends to
happen when a team is playing good baseball.

Columbus had rallied from a 5-1 deficit to tie Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 5-5 after nine innings.
Relievers Nick Hagadone and Jerry Gil (5-0) hung a fifth consecutive zero on the RailRiders in the
top of the 10th, and the offense did the rest.

Chun-Hsiu Chen followed singles by Matt LaPorta and Lonnie Chisenhall with his third hit of the
game to score pinch-runner Matt Lawson from second base to give the Clippers a 6-5 win.

The left-handed hitting Chisenhall followed LaPorta’s hit with a hard bunt to the first-base
side of the mound that lefty reliever Jerry Spence couldn’t field. Lawson took second.

“I feel comfortable hitting the ball like that,” said Chisenhall, who tied the score with a
two-run single in the four-run seventh inning. “It was a big one for us. I was able to get on, but
I didn’t really need to get on.”

Chen did need to do what he did. He roped a line-drive single to cap his second game with the
Clippers since his promotion from double-A Akron on Sunday. The win was the sixth straight for
Columbus.

A contingent of Taiwanese reporters was at the game to watch Chen play and to see another native
son, RailRiders pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, start today’s 10:35 a.m. game.

The Cleveland Indians signed Chen out of Hualien, Taiwan, as a nondrafted free agent on Sept.
14, 2007. He was surprised to find countrymen in Columbus.

“I didn’t know they would be here,” Chen said. “They’ve seen me a little bit before triple-A.
But I enjoy that they’re here.”

He is having fun in his first taste of triple-A baseball and relished being in the postgame
scrum after his winning hit. He also singled in the second inning and homered in the fourth. When
the 10th inning rolled around, he wanted to end the game.

“I tried to hit the ball hard and get the base runner over,” said Chen, who was stinging the
ball at a .328 rate for the Aeros. “I don’t change anything. I’m doing everything the same.”

This didn’t surprise Clippers manager Chris Tremie, who was with Chen the past two seasons in
Akron.

“I think he has a lot of confidence in his offensive ability,” Tremie said. “With that being
said, he’s very humble, too. But he doesn’t seem to be nervous. So he’s had some really good
at-bats since he’s been here.”

The RailRiders scored four runs off Joe Martinez after two were out in the third inning. Thomas
Neal had a three-run double in the rally. They added a fifth run in the fifth inning.

The Columbus bullpen closed the door after that.

“The bullpen was outstanding,” Tremie said. “All of them did a great job.”